Research into cooking the perfect pasta sauce, another probing the types of pizza lizards liked to eat, and a study wondering whether painting cows with stripes protected them from flies are among the ...

Nobody does pasta quite like the Italians, as anyone who has tasted an authentic “pasta alla cacio e pepe” can attest. It’s a simple dish: just tonnarelli pasta, pecorino cheese, and pepper. But its ...

The Ig Nobel Prize honors research that first makes people laugh, then makes them think. Its 35th award ceremony possibly also makes people hungry: ISTA physicist Fabrizio Olmeda and colleagues ...

Fabrizio Olmeda, postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), and colleagues have now been awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for their research into the perfect cacio e ...